Water/Peltier how to???

[PCTroll]

How to build water cooling/peltier system??? Links, tutorials etc??? It is really hard to find something good from net about it. Thank you.

[Wicked Klown]

Go to the front page and look under watercool and the pelt. they will how you choose the size of the pelt, how to hook it up, how to prevent condensation, and the watercool section will help choosing a kit and such.

[Colin]

The front page has great articles on more than just pelts. Everyone of them has something to offer. I would suggest you read them all.

If you have not already, I would start with a start with a watercooled system first. Once you have it dialed in, then consider using pelts. Adding pelts to the equation without some basic watercooling experience usually just confuses things.

Some links on pelts to help you learn:

Applying Peltiers (http://www.heatsink-guide.com/applying-peltiers/)

Peltiers in Practice (http://www.dansdata.com/peltprac.htm)

Picking a Pelt (http://www.dansdata.com/pelt.htm)

Kryotherm Pelt
Software (http://www.kryotherm.spb.ru/index.htm)

Dedicated Power Supplies for Pelts:

You can save some money if you by from electronics surplus vendors or Ebay. Otherwise, check the links below.

TE Tech (http://www.tetech.com/power/)

Peak to Power (http://www.peaktopeakpower.com/catalogs/meanwell-001.html)

Melcor (http://www.melcor.com/powersup.htm)

Jameco (http://www.jameco.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=91&prrfnbr=3652&cgrfnbr=780&ctgys=503;528;780;)

And my personal favorite, the mighty Astron VLS 35M (http://www.astroncorp.com/w28.shtml)

Condensation Prevention:

Pro Cooling has a good article on condensation prevention. My method is below.

Coat your the inside of the socket, area surrounding the socket and the back of the board behind the socket with your choice of conformal coating and insulate with neoprene. Remove the feet from you CPU and coat the exposed circuitry with conformal coating. Don't forget the dielectric grease in the pin holes of the ZIF socket. You may want to cut a thin strip of neoprene to cover the locking lever of the ZIF socket. This is not shown in any of the following photos.

Insulated Board & Socket (http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1551335&a=11768501&p=51738695)

Make a blanket out of 1/16" neoprene to cover the whole package.

CPU Blanket (http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1551335&a=11768501&p=51738692)

If you are using one pelt, you will need to make a neoprene gasket to surround the pelt between the block and cold plate. With dual pelts, you can just run a bead of silicone around the pelts between the block and cold plate. Then surround the coldplate with neoprene. I found it easier to insulate the whole block and cold plate as a package. Note the 1/16" CPU blanket in the previous photo is also in the photo below. DO NOT use two sheets of 1/16" neoprene.

Insulated Block (http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1551335&a=11768501&p=50217756)

The completed package with the block installed on the motherboard.

Finished Product (http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1551335&a=11768501&p=51743929)

You can read some of my experiences with pelts here. (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14276)

[PCTroll]

Thank you guys. I found information about water cooling and on paper it seems really easy. I wonder what I were afraid so that I didn't started to study so outstanding solution before. But yeah..old tech(fan tech) is inside you and you are afraid of the new especially if you don't understand nothing about it.
Now I'm trying to get clue about peltiers....they seem to be bit more tricky.
Thank you guys again.

[Dissolved]

yea, its also good to try new stuff.. pletiers sound awesome to me.. but my water block cant really take one, unless i mod it alot =/ ... but good luck, and be sure to post re****s. :)

oh oh and pics too lots of them :)

[Wicked Klown]

[i]Originally posted by PCTroll I'm trying to get clue about peltiers....they seem to be bit more tricky.
Thank you guys again. [/B]


Yea pelts are a tad tricky just be careful. Read all about them go to different web site and learn alot about them. It`s better to spend 20 hours of studying rather then just doing it and messin everything up. Good luck with it.